Details
Creator Hand, Alfred, photographer.
Title Laurel Hill, Randolph Mansion. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1920
Date ca. 1920
Physical Description 1 negative: glass; 11 x 8 cm. (4 x 3.25 in.)
Description Exterior view of front facade of the colonial mansion, Laurel Hill. The central portion of the house was built circa 1767, the single story addition circa 1800 and the octagonal wing after 1837. Built for Rebecca Rawle and her second husband, Samuel Shoemaker. The house was purchased by physician Philip Syng Physick in 1828 and it passed to Physick's daughter Sarah Randolph who in turn sold it to the Fairmount Park Commission in 1869. The Commission used it for employee housing from 1869-1901 and then leased it to two organizations, The Colonial Dames of America and later the Women for Greater Philadelphia, who opened it to the public.
Notes Inscribed in negative: 3203.
Title from negative sleeve.
Subject Shoemaker, Samuel, 1725-1800 -- Homes and haunts.
Shoemaker, Rebecca Warner Rawle, 1730-1819 -- Homes and haunts.
Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837 -- Homes and haunts.
Randolph, Sarah -- Homes and haunts.
Laurel Hill Mansion (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- East.
Genre Glass plate negatives -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.87]
Accession number P.9259.87